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EXCLUSIVE: Melissa George, who stars on the Apple TV+ original series, Mosquito Coast, has signed with Inspire Entertainment for management. Over the years, George has starred in a variety of hit shows that were both critical and commercially successful. Those include In Treatment for which she was Golden Globe…

Between shooting the first and second seasons of AppleTV+ Series The Mosquito Coast, Australian Melissa George (In Treatment, The Slap) has made an entrance into French cinema with the Emmanuelle Bercot-directed Peaceful (De Son Vivant). At Cannes for the film’s premiere, George dropped by the Deadline studio, where…

One afternoon in the early aughts, Melissa George found herself in a hotel room with Harvey Weinstein. The mogul, wearing a bathrobe, wanted to discuss two roles in his upcoming films Derailed and Amityville Horror. An assistant waited in the hallway, but then, fortunately, so did George's 'entourage'. "I actually was…

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate Emmanuelle Bercot returns to the Cannes Film Festival this year with out-of-competition entry Peaceful (De Son Vivant), an avowed melodrama she both directed and wrote. Bercot was last here starring in Eva Husson's 2018 Girls Of The Sun and previously had a triumphant 2015 when her drama Stan…

The new Apple TV+ series The Mosquito Coast follows mad political inventor Allie Fox and his family in the events prior to the famed 1981 Paul Theroux novel, which was adapted into a Golden Globe-nominated 1986 movie starring Harrison Ford. Playing Fox is the author's nephew Justin Theroux. Fox is still a quirky guy…

Melissa George (The First), Gabriel Bateman (Child’s Play) and Logan Polish (The Astronaut Farmer) are set to star alongside Justin Theroux in Apple’s drama series Mosquito Coast, from Luther creator Neil Cross. Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), the series is based on the 1981 novel The Mosquit…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa George (The Good Wife) is set to recur opposite Andre Holland and Amandla Stenberg in Oscar winner Damien Chazelle's (La La Land, Whiplash) anticipated Netflix series The Eddy, from Endeavor Content. The Eddy is a musical drama set in contemporary multicultural Paris revolving around a club, its…

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired U.S rights to Don’t Go, the new film from David Gleeson, and has set on October 26 theatrical release date for it. Stephen Dorff and Melissa George star in the unconventional supernatural thriller from Gleeson, who is coming off co-writing the script for the JRR Tolkien biopic Tolkien…

EXCLUSIVE: First-time feature writer-director Priscilla Cameron's The Butterfly Tree will wing to its North American premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival. The film, which stars Melissa George as a former burlesque queen who becomes the object of a grieving father and son's desires, bowed at…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Dorff and Melissa George have stepped into the leading roles for Tolkien writer David Gleeson’s mystery thriller Don’t Let Go. The project marks Gleeson’s return to directing following Disney’s Cowboys & Angels and The Front Line. Written by Oscar-nominated writer Ronan Blaney (the short Boogaloo and…

Melissa George has been tapped for the lead and Brothers & Sisters alum Dave Annable for a co-starring role in NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the medical soap follows the outspoken Alex Panttiere (George), one of the rare female heart-transplant surgeons. Alex brings an…

Thandie Newton and Melissa George are the latest to board NBC’s eight-episode miniseries. Based on the 2011 Australian short-run series, The Slap is described as a complex family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute…